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I handed my SIL fresh eggs and she looked at them and asked me "Are they ok to eat?" I told her she could put them in the fridge for 3-4 months and then they will be just like store boughts.
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Sometimes people just don't think it through. When we started this venture and mentioned to DS (10 or 11 at the time) that we would eat the roos, he said he didn't want any part of that. I asked him, "When did you become a vegetarian?" Once he thought it through and realized that chicken doesn't grow on a styrofoam container in the grocery store, he decided it might be okay to eat our boys who have been raised where they can free-range, eat greenery and bugs, feel the sun on their backs and be killed in a humane manner after all.

I have a friend who once ordered rack of lamb in a restaurant. When it arrived, she looked down at the plate, saw the ribs and asked the waitress "Oh - you didn't kill a little baby lamb did you?" The waitress was nonplussed and didn't know how to respond. My friend was a little chagrined that she had never thought what the term Rack of LAMB actually means! (She did eat the meal - decided she didn't want the poor little lamb's life to have been wasted by then being thrown in the trash.)
 
Have your husband gift Mike with a DVD called Food, Inc. Wait a week, then ask Mike where he'd prefer to get his meat from.
 
Store bought chicken and eggs make me sick. i cant eat store bought chicken at all i spend 2 or 3 days in bed with a bucket next to me. but i can eat my chickens everyday without getting sick
my eggs have flavor and dont give me stinky burps. i love all my birds and take good care of them i may even be eating a serama roo sometime in april if i cant rehome him soon sorry
meats meat man has to eat.
 
i think your husband should befriend him invite him over for dinner and feed him a recently culled chicken .... after dinner tell him what he just ate ...
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People get weirded out when I tell them we have chickens, mainly for eggs, but eventually, they will end up as dinner or stock or soup or something. The rooster is on his way to freezer camp this week. They give me this weird look and ask, "Do you name them?" Yes, I do. And I do consider them as much pets as the dog and cats. But at the end of the day, they are also food, in one way or another. I don't have the land area to keep older hens who are not laying anymore. If I want to continue to have eggs, I will do what has to be done. In the meantime, they get a nice roomy coop, fresh food and water, lots of treats, a big run to scratch around in, free time in the yard to range, and are spoiled rotten by me all the time. I'm sure we will get the best chicken we've ever eaten from them, just like we get the best eggs we've ever eaten.

An earlier respondent was right- we have gotten much too far away from our food in this country. People don't really think about where that boneless chicken breast, or steak, or pork chop came from.
 
I had a co worker who freaked about me eating eggs from my pets. She ate eggs from the store but said she couldn't bring herself to eat an egg from her own chicken (not something she is likely to have) because it was a pet. Another co worker's family had chickens when she was growing up but they bought store eggs for her because she didn't want to eat their chickens' eggs. A friend who was an alderman in a small rural town that does not allow chickens in their town but allows snakes and unlimited dogs and cats remained adamant that the no chicken rule stays inspite of numerous discussions while he downed my deviled eggs.

I live in a rural area and one night at work we were talking about cows and the different colors of cows. I jokingly made the remark that the white cows give regular milk, the black cows give dark chocolate milk and the holseins give milk chocolate......and most of them believed me!

We live in a crazy world that is for the most part is far unable to survive on their own if they had to supply their own food even when given the tools to do so.
 
Since I live in town my chickens are for eggs but I will be hatching some eggs this year if my hen goes broody now those eggs that hatch are roosters will become dinner. until then they will have plenty of food sunshine time to run and be chickens and get lots of treats and when the time comes they will nourish my family.
 
idea that he IS a hypocrite:

Not really. Not by what he knows. He's a hypocrit only according to what YOU believe and what YOU know.

He probably thinks like I did for years, that chicken farms are hermetically hygenic, clean places where poop is automatically sucked away and eggs are collected instantly and made perfectly clean, and chickens are perfectly happy in small cages because they are just 'birds' and 'birds are dumb'.

It never bothered me for years. I had no idea what goes on. And then when I was told, I still had to change my mind. It takes a while to sink in and not everyone will change their opinions.

And I could care less if the CHICKEN knows the difference, to be honest. That to me is an unimportant argument. I'M the one who prefers to see free range chickens. It wouldn't make a bit of difference to me if the chicken was 'used to' battery cages or 'not sentient enough' to understand the difference.

I don't much care that it's more expensive right now. I think it can be done more efficiently and safely than it's being done now. I think it's an evolving process.

In fact, I DON'T believe battery chickens sit there and dream of green fields. I don't think they know there is anything different than their little world. They are born there and die there. But you see, I think that free ranging is better for them. I have seen how they act when they're put in a small space. They fight and pick at each other. The rooster gets aggressive with people and with the hens. I don't care what a chicken's brain thinks or what it dreams of. I just don't like seeing them stuffed together in battery cages.

To me, all animals need room. If we're going to use them for meat or eggs or whatever, I think we have a responsibility to not kick and abuse them, to feed them food that keeps them healthy and to understand how to handle and care for them, to give them care when they need it, all that.

Not everyone is going to agree with you, you have to get used to that and not condemn people for it.
 
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